Jawbreaker are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their album Bivouac and Chesterfield King EP with remastered reissues of both released. The digital and CD versions of Bivouac will contain the tracks from Chesterfield King, along with two bonus tracks. They will also both be released on vinyl. Both are set for a December 11, 2012 release.

I was walking my dog last night and Too Small to Fail came on my ipod and I was blown the fuck away. I've uploaded the EP to my ipod but through the shuffle, I haven't listened to it much and it hit me last night: That shit is tight !

Just curious, when did you get into them? I had only heard the name until a few years ago when I finally checked them up mostly because of the Lucero cover (I honestly like the cover much more than the original...something about Blake's vocals doesn't do it for me).

Anyway, since we are around the same age was wondering if this is one of those "had to be there" bands...because I just don't get it.

Curb your yolks, crawfish: your horrible nonsense has no place here. My fraternal grandfather was a NASA scientist and he'd be kicking your ass up and down the street for saying something like that. Nevertheless, the only good thing to come out of the moon landing was the Challenger explosion.

But science isn't the villain here: it's bastard_squad for being so old, with the irony being that the two of us are both relatively youthful.

How could you not remember that episode? It was THE 'Punky' episode, next to the one where one of the kids gets trapped in the refrigerator. Punky dreams of being an astronaut but then she witnesses the Challenger disaster and becomes depressed, so Buzz Aldrin shows up and gives her a pep talk. It's one of the defining "Tonight, on a very special..." television episodes next to the 'Diff'rent Strokes' with Nancy Reagan.

Who? I'm a space program aficionado and this genuinely interests me. And not to be crass, but I'm particularly curious about the "descent." Have your friend's relatives ever spoken about what NASA told them about crew survival after the explosion? The supersonic freefall guy in the news actually had me thinking about Challenger and Columbia, I guess NASA was involved with that stunt in consideration of suits that would increase the suvivability of a similar disaster if astronauts could bail out. With no hatch or ejection system the shuttle was a flying coffin. What a horrible, creepy way to go.

Also, we will all die someday, he/she is too dead to have their feelings hurt, and Skibz is Skibz. No harm done.

Nobody cares if the dead person's feelings were hurt, he's saying that Skibz offended him by making light of his dead friend. Which is reasonable. Though it is skibz so we'll just wait until he comes back, rants more about it, and then we'll have Buzz Aldrin come on here and tell Skibz he's a lunatic just like Roxy Epoxy did and everyone can laugh at him

How the hell was I making light of "his dead friend", especially since A) I had no idea bastard_squad has any connection to the event, B) I wasn't even talking to bastard_squad, C) I wasn't even making "light" of anything considering I was referencing an episode of 'Punky Brewster', and D) my original post was expressing my own offense over the insinuation of the moon landing being faked? I'd like an answer to all three, you Paki fuck.

haha I didn't even read your post, I just wanted to see how you reacted to being trolled. Lighten up duder, it's been like a week and a half since I harassed you last and I just didn't want you to think I forgot about you

Agreed, I've cut people completely out of my life just for believing the Moon landing was a hoax. And I'm constantly screaming at my lefter-than-thou friends and colleagues that a) the space program was NEVER a waste in any conceivable way and b) it's by far the best hope we have of ever parlaying the military-industrial complex into something useful. There is something indescribably poetic about using missiles designed to slaughter millions of people to instead peacefully shoot instruments, scientists and crazy pilots (who will similarly be doing something peaceful instead of bombing brown people) into space. I will never, EVER understand why I am in the minority on this among my ideological peers.

in all seriousness though i would agree that it was a "had to be there" band cause they fuckin suck but when emos started singing this emo i guess it was unique and cool like how limp bizkit was the shit back in 1999 but now i play it for my 17 year old girlfriend and she just doesnt get it. the songs are boring and the singer sounds like fuckin andy kauffman.

This. I'm guess I'm partially biased on this because I never really 'got' Bivouac until I bought the vinyl, but the whole thing flows much better in that track listing.

This is pretty awesome news; there's a split in the seam of my copy of Bivouac (glues just gone) and I never got around to picking up Chesterfield King on vinyl. I guess the money going to the artist is plus too, OOP records are a drag.

I already own 'Bivouac', what's the incentive to buy it again? Don't these guys already make enough off royalties from commercials, films, etc.? Either throw in, like, a DVD or a shirt or a 100-page photo booklet, or you can count me out.

I don't steal albums. If the shirt comes packaged with the album, I don't really have much of a choice. I'm not going to try to open the packaging right in the middle of Best Buy. I have *some* moral scruples, you know.

Still, when I post in a thread, I prefer it to be *me* who makes it spiral wildly out of control, not two goofballs having an extraneous hissy fit. I have both a reputation and a quota to maintain. What would my dead scientist grandfather think?!

Well....um...well, my maternal STEP-grandfather is still alive! He's 82 and a devout Jehovah's Witness. He wouldn't cotton to your loud music or shameful profanity. Don't make me get him on the phone. >:[

That reminds me...I used to work teach Jr High and this really dumb kid came up and asked if he could look up a fraternity online. When asked why he said - "Some girl is claiming I'm the father and I need to get a fraternity test"

What, about the remastering? I don't care. I'm not *that* big of a Jawbreaker fan. I have most of their albums in the original mastering and I don't have any aching desire to hear them with any further clarity. Come ON, man; you know me better than that. Remastering a punk album is like polishing a you-know-what.

Okay fine. But you need to answer my second part where you think they have a lot of their music in TV shows, commercials, films, etc. and getting royalty checks for it because I've never heard a Jawbreaker song on ANYTHING.

I don't think that will fit on a button. Plus, it's too dirty. I don't usually work blue.

On a side note, those Skibz buttons I made all sold within 36 hours and then none at all for over a week. If I plan on making buttons again, it has to coincide with another publicized outburst. I only have vague ideas for the next one but nothing concrete. Sorry.

Of course I see this right after I buy Hospitals by OWTH on vinyl on Amazon and have to spend another 30 on these. But it's okay, because that just means my ears are going to be incredibly fucking pleased in the coming months. And it also means that the 24 Hour Revenge Therapy reissue is coming eventually. So my day just got a whole hell of a lot better.